Note 1 — INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Louisa S. Maclehose translation
Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, London, 1903, 1, p. 18, says that Vasari ‘was an indifferent connoisseur and a poor historian; but he was a great appreciator ... and a passionate anecdote-monger. Now the Anecdote must have sharp contrasts....’